I cannot resist remarking that, without mentioning the recent popular interest in the Prayer of Jabez in 4:9-10 as a sort of mantra guaranteeing success in family and business, Klein notes that in context the prayer asks God to counteract what would appear to be negative connotations of pain and harm in the popular etymology of the name Jabez.

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